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US Charges Iranians For Global Cyber Attacks on Behalf of Tehran (reuters.com)
The United States on Friday charged nine Iranians and an Iranian company with attempting to hack into hundreds of U.S. and international universities, dozens of companies and parts of the U.S. government on behalf of the Tehran government. From a report: The cyber attack pilfered more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from 144 U.S. universities and 176 universities in 21 foreign countries, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The U.S. Treasury Department said on its website that it was placing sanctions on those accused and the Mabna Institute, a company described by U.S. prosecutors as designed to help Iranian research organizations steal information.
Iran has never used nerve agent to assassinate someone and contaminate a British town.
They also haven't hacked our election systems, unlike Russia.
More importantly, they never bribed Moscow Donald to betray his own country.
How were they able to hack so many universities? I wonder if this is fallout from the Snowden leaks revealing all the backdoors in legacy systems.
Sure. Like when the USA was spying on the German Chancellor.
The cyber attack pilfered more than 31 terabytes of academic data.
I hate it when media quantifies dammage in terms of bytes... bytes of what? I can fit 31TiB in my desk draw, at little cost. The significance of the size entirely depends on what it is... is it 31 TiB of academic security footage? or decades worth of research? reducing qualatative dammage information to these kinds of numbers looses all relevance, much like that kid who looked over his techers shoulder to see his password who was charged with "computer missuse act".
If you hear the comments from the neo-nazis, white supremacists, racists, and other jackasses like this guy is, in the voice of a petulant 12 year old boy? Suddenly it makes more sense. But in the voice of an actual adult, ostensibly educated, with a three-digit IQ? Not so much.
The USA, NSA and Five Eyes regularly intercepts traffic, hacks communication, puts back doors in commercial devices and even modifies other countries hardware. I find it hard to charge intelligence operatives of other countries for doing something we do ourselves. Your morals have to be pretty messed up to make one a crime and encourage the other.
>US Charges Iranians For Global Cyber Attacks on Behalf of Tehran
This makes it sound like the US is doing Tehran a favour by doing some of their legal work for them.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Someone stoled my intellectual property. Where is it? Oh I still have it, it's still here.
this is the same shitty country that was exposed by snowden for hacking countries all over the world. now it's crying about iran, russia and china? lol what a shithole
I find it is best to just assume that those statements are made by APK and ignore.
Expect the Trump admin to kill off the Iranian deal (even the Prez can't say why its actually bad) - I think that comes up within a month. Would not be surprised if this the beginning of the drumbeat for regime change by this administration.
Iran has never used nerve agent to assassinate someone and contaminate a British town.
They also haven't hacked our election systems, unlike Russia.
More importantly, they never bribed Moscow Donald to betray his own country.
Sometimes the headline makes me have to do a triple reading. I read that and thought to myself, "How much are we charging for these cyber attacks?" As in a monetary value. Then I figured out "charged with crimes". The English language sucks....
Nothing like the early echo of wardrums in the morning.
That is all.
Cambridge Analytica hacked your Facebook and you're a slave. BIGLY.
war is good business for one side..
Brazilian prosecutors, follow this example and charge the US staff involved in the cyber attacks against Petrobras and Brazilian government on 2014/2015
They are downloading the web in preparations of Internet Trumpdown.
A fascist regime bent on fermenting discord anywhere on the planet, the united States of America. I figure what with the Russians not responding to the neocon bait, they have to pick a fight elsewhere.
Even if this isn't just more propaganda from the usual pathological liars, the U.S. is hardly in a position to complain here after deliberately sabotaging Iran's civilian centrifuges.
If Iran had done that to the United States, we would have invaded their asses a long time ago.
Yeah, Iranian universities, etc. cannot access most of the high end academic journals eg. publications of the IEEE. There's an embargo or some such. So some enterprising types likely figured it would be easy to just download a bunch of stuff à la Aaron Swartz or Alexandra Elbakyan and liberate it in to Iran (possibly for profit). Kind of a non-event in that light isn't it? They got caught and there's a big anti-piracy/anti-Iran lobby so this makes news ... kinda.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Seize the means of science production!